Hesburgh Libraries

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An annotated typescript of a paper "On the Meaning of Contemporary Atheism" delivered at the University of Notre Dame, 23 March 1949; and a letter addressed to "Monsieur et cher confrere", 30 August 1927.

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A group of 22 family letters written by or to the merchant seaman James A. Loughead from 1827 to 1850, including seven written by his father, Robert L. Loughead, as United States Consul at Londonderry, Ireland.

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A Civil War letter written on 5 February 1865 by Confederate lieutenant James B. Jordan, 26th North Carolina Infantry, from the Federal prison camp at Johnson's Island, Ohio.

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Consists of 11 letters (October 1864 to March 1866) written by the Newark, Ohio printer and pro-war Republican James Parkison. All are directed to his brother William, who for most of the correspondence was serving with the Union army in Tennessee.

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A letter copy book containing about 125 pieces of outgoing military correspondence written by 1st Lt. James S. Swearingen of the U.S. Army, during service at the frontier post of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1806 to November 1807.

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This collection consists of a single letter sent from James Stephens to a woman named Nan, as well as a poem, “Optimist,” by Stephens.

Scope and Contents The collection contains two discrete series of letters. The larger and more significant consists of 51 letters sent to James Witter Nicholson in New Geneva, distributed rather evenly over the years 1804 to 1842. Thirty-nine of these were written by James's sister Maria Nicholson Montgomery, and nine more by his sisters Catharine Nicholson Few (7) and Jehoiadden Nicholson Chrystie (2). These are personal letters, written first and foremost to maintain contact with a distant brother who made...

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A collection of letters and other papers belonging to Jesús González Ortega, an important political and military figure in mid-19th century Mexico. The papers mainly relate to González Ortega's stay in the United States in 1865-1867, the efforts of Benito Juárez's government in Mexico to remove him from political office while he was away, and his detainment by the U.S. government in November 1866.

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...

Scope and Contents The Joe Garagiola Jr. Papers consist of materials related to a 1971 WSND student radio documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Knute Rockne. WSND Sports Director Art Martin and Assistant WSND Sports Director Joe Garagiola Jr. produced the Rockne documentary that aired in March of 1971. The collection contains original correspondence between Martin/Garagiola and players and other people who had known Rockne before his death in 1931. The collection also contains material...

Scope and Contents The John Carrington Cross Papers consist of typescript plays and short stories created by Cross while a graduate student in the dramatic arts department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A prolific writer who kept a wide circle of friends, Cross wrote regularly to friends and former classmates, some of whom were serving in the military during World War II. The collection contains many letters, from both male and female service members, that discuss work and living...

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The personal papers and court records of the New Hampshire farmer, innkeeper, and justice of the peace John Dinsmore, Jr. (1759-1814). The greater part of the collection consists of Rockingham County court records.

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Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.

Scope and Content Primarily correspondence; correspondents include Henry Hussman, John B. Quinn, Boniface Rauch, OSB, and Theodore Vose; some of the correspondence involves Ursuline Sisters, School Sisters of Notre Dame, and the Missouri State Historical Society. Also manuscripts of several historical articles, a catalog of Rothensteiner's personal library and of the Rothensteiner collection at Mundelein College; and personal papers of William Faerber (1841- 1905). The Notre Dame University...

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A group of 38 manuscript personal letters of John F. Delaney, chronicling his experiences as a gold prospector in the Yukon and Alaska, 1898-1899.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of football grid graphs created by John J. McGrath while listening to radio broadcasts of Notre Dame football games. McGrath took notes during the game and charted the action on the field as described by the announcers. He recorded and described each play of the game on a football-field shaped diagram, using arrows, lines, and descriptive notes.McGrath’s grid graphs typically went through several phases. The grid graphs started from notes and diagrams...

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A single manuscript letter from John Kelly, a Catholic priest, to an unnamed Protestant clergyman and the Chairman of the local Clerical Meeting, 1837 or 1838. Kelly explains why Catholic clergy generally remain aloof from temperance societies.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional papers of historian John Lukacs. Lukacs’ professional materials include samples from each stage of his writing process, including research files; article, essay, and poetry drafts; proofs; and published pieces in periodicals and clippings. The collection also contains contracts, financial records and lecture notes from his various teaching positions. Also included is Lukacs’ correspondence. Significant topics include 20th century American history,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 44 letters from John M. Jackson to his family during the Civil War. With one exception, the letters in this group were addressed to members of Jackson's immediate family — most commonly, to his mother or sisters. The four earliest (September and October 1862) were written from Camp Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Maine, where the 23rd Maine was organized. There follow 12 letters (11 dated from October 1862 to April 1863, and one without date) written from the Potomac...

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The bulk of this collection is a group of eight manuscript letters from John Thelwall, British poet and reformer (1764-1834), to Thomas Hardy, one of the main proponents for parliamentary reform (1752-1832).

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of Jorge Luis Borges an Argentine writer and poet. It contains ephemera and records related to Borges’ professional career, including newspaper articles, a cigarette holder, interviews, poetry, unpublished manuscripts, and scholarly articles written about Borges and published in various magazines, including the Avant Garde magazine Martín Fierro (1924-1927). Significant topics represented in these files are poetry and Latin American literature and...

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Letters that Roles received while rector of St. Mary's Church, Chicago, primarily concerning financial and real estate transactions and investments.

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A collection of letters addressed to Julia Pomeroy Brown from three women: Constance L., Emily Drummond, and Elizabeth Spooner. Letters detail life during WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the death of a British soldier.

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A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.

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The collection contains paper files from the later decades of Gümpel's career, including correspondence (notably, correspondence with Michel Huglo), transcriptions of medieval treatises, as well as notes, notebooks and index cards on various manuscripts. Near the end of his life, Gümpel was working on an edition of the anonymous 12-13th century treatise Diologus de musica, and there are many items related to this work in progress.

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More than 300 personal letters written by Dr. Lawrence Shields (1872-1946), mostly as a member of the American expatriate community in Mexico City, 1898 to 1902. The letters are directed to Shields's future wife, Clara Kinney, of Xenia, Ohio.

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A collection of personal letters written by Arthur Le Rossignol to his sister, Ethel, while he served in the British Motor Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front during World War I. Also included are letters written by Ethel, her colleague Pierre Pulinekse, and others.

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The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.

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Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

Scope and Contents Of the 127 letters in the collection, 115 were written by Leonard Williams to his wife Anna Laval Williams during the Civil War. These letters range in date from 18-19 July 1861 to 11 February 1865, and provide a literate, lengthy, and relatively continuous epistolary narrative of Williams's wartime experiences. The letters also stand as one side of an ongoing dialogue with Anna on managing the Greenville household and farm, including the slaves. (During the war the mercantile store was...